lola4028

safyrejet

Yar science! I love spelling stuff with the periodic table. Although it makes me sad that there is still no "j" on the periodic table so I can't spell my name which happens to start with a "j". *sadness*

I'll just have to console my nerdy self with this awesomesauce shirt.

*edit* I love the psuedo-science E aether bit. I'm in a PhD program in engineering but I appreciate the silly too. Lighten up y'all.

macmankev

I want to love this shirt but the æther element gets to me even though I know it's hard to spell science with just the elements. An electron might have been better. Also the fact that the element names aren't capitalized just bugs me.

outmywindow

lola4028 wrote:And no... I don't care that ether is really a compound!

"Ether" and "Aether" are completely different things. Err, concepts, since aether was disproved to exist in the early 20th century. Prior to its expulsion from the scientific canon, it was as important a concept in cosmology and physics as gravitation.

minuteric3

outmywindow wrote:"Ether" and "Aether" are completely different things. Err, concepts, since aether was disproved to exist in the early 20th century. Prior to its expulsion from the scientific canon, it was as important a concept in cosmology and physics as gravitation.

Plus, Plato thought of aether as the fifth element, and the shirt has 5 elements on it, so it works out for everyone!

miamicane14

I like the fact that ether is on the shirt. I think that one of the most critical elements of science is its ability to adapt and throw out concepts that prove to be wrong. Including ether on the shirt highlights how science moves forward. It is about the process not the 'current' answer.

Borrowing a quote from a recent SGU Podcast:

"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved." - Bertrand Russell's "The ABC of Relativity" (4th revised edition).

trunkwontopen

richieu11

hey, I want to buy this shirt for my brother who is a molecular biologist plotting to destroy the evils of the world and protect all from peril, but he lives in cali and I live in chicago. Is there anyway to get woot to send this shirt directly to him instead of me?

walmark

Lightndattic

safyrejet wrote:Yar science! I love spelling stuff with the periodic table. Although it makes me sad that there is still no "j" on the periodic table so I can't spell my name which happens to start with a "j". *sadness*

I'll just have to console my nerdy self with this awesomesauce shirt.

*edit* I love the psuedo-science E aether bit. I'm in a PhD program in engineering but I appreciate the silly too. Lighten up y'all.

*edit again* ooh, my first quality post. Yay! Thanks woot peoples.

According to Dr Jones, names beginning with J in Latin begin with an I. Spell it in Latin.

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